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Natural Hazards: Causes and Effects: Lesson 2—Earthquakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Eddie Perez  and
Paul Thompson
Eddie Perez
Affiliation:
WASH, Arlington, Va.
Paul Thompson
Affiliation:
Interworks, Madison, Wis.
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 260 - 272
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1994

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